<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Joseph Fry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com" target="_blank">joe@thefrys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Your not getting sound when playing a recording in mythtv?<br>
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You need to adjust your mythtv audio output to the HDMI, and probably<br>
check the box to pass through Dolby Digital and DTS (if your tv<br>
decodes that).<br>
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Joseph Fry <<a href="mailto:joe@thefrys.com">joe@thefrys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> >> Perhaps someone can say for certain if the ATI binary drivers are<br>
>>> >> required for audio over HDMI... I would suspect that they might if you<br>
>>> >> see no trace of the audio device on your system.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> One thing you might do is open a terminal and run "dmesg". this will<br>
>>> >> give you the log generated by the kernel as it detects and configures<br>
>>> >> drivers for your system. Scan through it to see if you see any sign<br>
>>> >> that it loaded drivers for ATI audio, HDMI audio, or something like<br>
>>> >> that.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> You might also do an "lspci" and take a look at the output of that to<br>
>>> >> see if the device was even detected.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> There are a ton of tools at your disposal to check things out, however<br>
>>> >> without any experience with your device I can't be sure what the best<br>
>>> >> approach would be. Perhaps someone else can help?<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> Personally, I always use the binary drivers from ATI or NVIDIA. While<br>
>>> >> the ATI/AMD drivers are not perfect by any means, they are superior to<br>
>>> >> the open source drivers included in Ubuntu, simply because they have<br>
>>> >> access to information about the hardware that is not provided to open<br>
>>> >> source developers.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> You do run the risk of X not starting, however typically this is<br>
>>> >> easily fixed, and I don't see it happen very frequently, way too many<br>
>>> >> users of those drivers for major issues like that to be ignored. Just<br>
>>> >> make sure your system is fully updated before adding the video<br>
>>> >> drivers... just in case your previous bad experience required a patch.<br>
>>><br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > 00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia<br>
>>> > (Intel HDA)<br>
>>> > 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cedar HDMI<br>
>>> > Audio<br>
>>> > [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Above are the only two lines detailing "Audio" from "lspci".<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > 14.977248] input: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as<br>
>>> > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input10<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > 14.594360] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors<br>
>>> > [ 14.594361] [drm] Connector 0:<br>
>>> > [ 14.594363] [drm] HDMI-A-1<br>
>>> > [ 14.594363] [drm] HPD2<br>
>>> > [ 14.594365] [drm] DDC: 0x6440 0x6440 0x6444 0x6444 0x6448 0x6448<br>
>>> > 0x644c<br>
>>> > 0x644c<br>
>>> > [ 14.594366] [drm] Encoders:<br>
>>> > [ 14.594367] [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY1<br>
>>> > [ 14.594368] [drm] Connector 1:<br>
>>> > [ 14.594369] [drm] DVI-D-1<br>
>>> > [ 14.594370] [drm] HPD4<br>
>>> > [ 14.594371] [drm] DDC: 0x6460 0x6460 0x6464 0x6464 0x6468 0x6468<br>
>>> > 0x646c<br>
>>> > 0x646c<br>
>>> > [ 14.594372] [drm] Encoders:<br>
>>> > [ 14.594373] [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY<br>
>>> > [ 14.594373] [drm] Connector 2:<br>
>>> > [ 14.594374] [drm] VGA-1<br>
>>> > [ 14.594376] [drm] DDC: 0x6430 0x6430 0x6434 0x6434 0x6438 0x6438<br>
>>> > 0x643c<br>
>>> > 0x643c<br>
>>> > [ 14.594376] [drm] Encoders:<br>
>>> > [ 14.594377] [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Above is what seems relevant from "dmesg"<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-updates release) is the<br>
>>> > option from "System Settings>additional drivers" is what I leaning<br>
>>> > toward.<br>
>>> > What do you think?<br>
>>><br>
>>> I wouldn't hesitate to use the FGLRX driver... but if your wary of<br>
>>> doing it, it may not be necessary.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I found several posts from folks who suggest that support for HDMI<br>
>>> audio in the open source drivers is experimental (in Ubuntu 12.10<br>
>>> anyway) and in order to use it you need to enable it like so:<br>
>>> ---<br>
>>> In a terminal run "gksu gedit /etc/default/grub" and add the<br>
>>> "radeon.audio=1" parameter to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT so it looks<br>
>>> something like this:<br>
>>><br>
>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.audio=1"<br>
>>><br>
>>> Save the file and run "sudo update-grub."<br>
>>><br>
>>> Reboot.<br>
>>> ---<br>
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>> Well I took the plunge and installed the FGLRX driver, rebooted and still<br>
>> have a picture, and even a HDMI option in sound settings, but no sound with<br>
>> or without the patch cord. Initially doing the sound test in HDMI was<br>
>> successful, I heard "front right" and "front left". Playing a recording is<br>
>> however mute. Now when I go back into sound settings, none of the options<br>
>> give an audible test, but with the digital option I can see the speakers<br>
>> turn blue when I test either one, but no sound. What can I do now to recover<br>
>> sound?<br>
>><br>
>> Daryl<br>
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> Here is a snip from the "dmesg" probe:<br>
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> [ 49.239601] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X<br>
> [ 49.240177] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 2007<br>
> [ 49.240345] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 2008<br>
> [ 49.240483] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 2009<br>
> [ 49.240590] [fglrx] IRQ 46 Enabled<br>
> [ 49.250144] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000<br>
> [ 49.250146] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:f8a4000,<br>
> size:45c000<br>
> [ 49.250148] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:3fff4000,<br>
> size:c000<br>
> [ 54.035012] [fglrx:firegl_apl_loadDatabase] *ERROR* APL: apl initialize<br>
> fail.<br>
> [ 54.038562] [fglrx:firegl_apl_loadDatabase] *ERROR* APL: apl initialize<br>
> fail.<br>
> [ 60.104353] [fglrx:firegl_apl_loadDatabase] *ERROR* APL: apl initialize<br>
> fail.<br>
> [ 60.106193] [fglrx:firegl_apl_loadDatabase] *ERROR* APL: apl initialize<br>
> fail.<br>
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> I don't know what this means, but I know it's not good.<br>
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> Daryl<br>
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<div><br></div><div>Daryl </div></div><br></div></div>